Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short courses , for teachers already in post , were arranged from time to time , though they assumed nothing like the significance that in-service provision was to have later . |
| 2 | They are adjusted so that if the project were completed on time to specification the contractor would realize a reasonable profit . |
| 3 | The restoration and re-furbishing were completed in time for a great service of re-hallowing on 27th July . |
| 4 | Translations in ‘ latin ’ languages like Spanish and Italian were completed in time for the promulgation of the test by the Holy Father on December 7th last year . |
| 5 | The voices of churchmen were heard from time to time , perhaps frequently , complaining of the enslavement of Christians , or of the treatment of slaves ; but there was no radical attack on the institution as such . |
| 6 | Around 650 responses of this kind were received in time to be included in the analysis . |
| 7 | They could be cured if they were treated in time with iodine , whole gland , or pure hormone . |
| 8 | Inspectors , some of them Englishmen , were dismissed from time to time for accepting bribes or for other dubious practices . |
| 9 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 10 | Although a handful of poems were written in times of solitude or loneliness , the great bulk of her poetry was written for Freemantle or for other friends . |
| 11 | Heavy reclamation walls were built from time to time as the docks were extended seawards and today , the dock estate lies entirely on land reclaimed from the foreshore . |
| 12 | Bitter correspondence in July and August failed to resolve the dispute although Smith & Jones did make a without prejudice offer of £500 ( in respect of the two deliveries which were made on time without damaged goods ) to settle the matter . |
| 13 | A number of reconstructions were made from time to time , especially under Julius Caesar and Augustus . |
| 14 | ‘ All normal programmes were cancelled and brief announcements were made from time to time , interspersed with solemn music , ’ recalls Jean Williams , of Noel 's Court , Catterick Village . |
| 15 | Many were , indeed , buried during the Hannibalic War or the civil wars after 49BC , when much of the fighting took place in Italy , but many other hoards were buried at times during the first century BC when there was no fighting there . |
| 16 | In this area , however , during the Quaternary they were invaded from time to time by thick wedges of debris flows . |
| 17 | Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 18 | Of course numerous policy dilemmas and conflicts also confronted the United States and Japan in the 1980S ; problems of high cost and prices were exacerbated at times by exchange rate fluctuations . |
| 19 | Lyell saw each biogeographical province as a ‘ centre of creation ’ where new species typical of that province were created from time to time , spreading out from the centre to occupy as much territory as they could . |
| 20 | By 1980 the river stank , the beaches nearby were covered at times by blobs of grease , fat and oils , and thousands of sea birds were poisoned by lead compounds released from a chemical works . |
| 21 | Prisoners-of-war , wandering free men , peasants and natives were mobilized from time to time into detachments of foreign servicemen ( Litva ) or cossacks , and there were service gentry from European Russia stationed in the region for periods of several years . |